Summit Murder Mystery Series

  The group at the summit, from                                                          Walker Dean Moore's Facebook page.   Walker Moore carrying the cross on  day 5 of the climb, from his Facebook page.   ARUSHA, Tanzania - A Tulsa minister climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, carrying a 12 foot tall wooden cross, reached the summit Saturday.  Walker Moore is the founder of Awe Star ministries and has traveled all over the world. A lot of his work is in Panama, so the wood for the cross came from there. Then he had people in villages there sign it. "We're just going to take it to the top and I'm just going to s...

Murder on Kilimanjaro is the last of the Summit Murder Mystery Series of murder mysteries, each set atop the highest mountain on one of the world’s seven continents. Beginning with Murder on Everest then traversing the world from summit to summit the on-going story reaches culmination in East Africa. Recurring characters are brought together for this final expedition and story lines are resolved. The Summit Murder Series is likely the most unique, certainly one of the most exciting, series of murder mystery books ever written. Each story brings a fresh plot as well as insight into the unique landscape and cultures surrounding these mountains. In Murder on Kilimanjaro , Scott Devlon, Afghanistan war veteran, mountaineer and occasional agent for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has been invited by the sitting President of the United States to join him on his climb of the highest point in Africa. The president is returning to his family roots and will be accompanied by his r...

No legs? No problem for Spencer West Spencer West in Kenya. West, who has no legs, plans to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest peak, this month. How does a man with no legs climb a mountain? If you’re waiting for the punchline, it’s no joke. On June 10, Spencer West, who stands two-foot-seven and has no lower body below his pelvis, will begin a journey to the peak of Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro. West was born with a severe deformity of the spine that resulted in his legs being completely amputated. Spencer learned to walk on his hands and has since overcome every challenge life has thrown at him. He’s been a cheerleader and high school actor, has helped build schools in Kenya, and travels the globe as a motivational speaker. Now he’s going to take on a mountain. In 2011, West made his sixth visit to Kenya to volunteer on development projects. While there, he witnessed the toll the recent drought has taken...

Great article in the Arizona Republic today about Laura Barnes and her upcoming Kilimanjaro climb. In Swahili, hakuna matata translates to "no worries." Laura Barnes of Gilbert uses these words immortalized by the Disney movie "The Lion King" to assuage the fears of her 11-year-old son Henry about her upcoming charity trek of Mt. Kilimanjaro in the African country of Tanzania. "Kilimanjaro? Hakuna matata," Barnes says jauntily to Henry, who's troubled that the name of the mountain starts with the consonant "kil."  Hakuna matata was far from what Barnes' parents felt 40 years ago when their daughter was diagnosed with a hole in her heart. Barnes was 4 then and living in the village of Hartford in northwest England. "I cannot even begin to imagine the fear and the terror they were going through," she said. "But they didn't show it to me." When she turned 10, Barnes had open-heart surgery at Ro...

Last year, an estimated 25,000 people set out to climb Mt Kilimanjaro , Africa's highest mountain. In so doing, they ate approximately 110,000 snickers bars, drank 70,000 litres of tea, expelled 75 cubic metres of intestinal gas and used 962 kilometres of toilet paper. More significant for the rest of us, they also produced some 25,000 personal accounts of the climb, tales of altitude, aptitude and attitude that have been written up, blogged about or televised more times than Britney Spears' waist line. With all this exposure, you'd be forgiven for thinking that a trek up Kili (as it's affectionately known by morons) would yield little in the way of surprises, every trivial twist and turn having been cogitated ad (altitudinal) nauseam in the pages of some glossy travel mag. Certainly this was my feeling as I embarked on the climb last month: there was nothing that could catch me unawares, right? Well, it turns out I was wrong. And here in testament t...

We are very excited to announce the winner of our 'We Want You - Cover Contest'!  If you recall, we ran a contest for several months asking readers to help us choose the cover for the final book in our Summit Murder Mystery Series, Murder on Kilimanjaro .  The winner of the contest will receive a copy of all seven books in the series!   Congratulations to.... JOHN A THOMAS!   Thank you to everyone that entered!  Winning by 54% is the cover pictured below!  Stay tuned for more information about the Summit Murder Mystery Series!  We will be releasing Murder on Vinson Massif next month and Murder on Kilimanjaro in September!   For more information about the Summit Murder Mystery Series, please visit our Summit Murder Mystery Series site by clicking HERE